"We are going to take all the feedback into consideration. So far, there are three choices that are basically tied," Klein said in a message. "The comments people have been leaving have been incredibly helpful. And folks have even suggested additional names we hadn't thought of."
Names being considered for the store to be located on Salem Avenue near downtown include:
- Dayton City Market (Dayton Fresh Market)
- Salem Market / Salem Avenue Market
- Gem City Market
- Riverview Community Market
- River's Edge Market
- Peace Market
- River Station Community Market
>> Click here to vote on a name.
Klein said additional details will soon be released about the planned co-op store we told you about last week.
The Greater Dayton Union Cooperative Initiative polled residents between late March and mid-June about their feelings on a cooperative grocery store.
About 1,100 people — most from northwest Dayton — completed print and online surveys.
Seven in 10 respondents said they were likely or very likely to make a worker-owned, full-service grocery store on lower Salem Avenue their primary choice for grocery shopping, Richard Stock, director of the Business Research Group at the University of Dayton, said in August.
>> MORE: Initiative is underway to develop a cooperative grocery store
Some West Dayton residents have had difficulties getting healthy, affordable food since the Kroger on Gettysburg Avenue shut its doors in 2008.
The cooperative grocery store hopes to bring nutritious and high-quality foods and new jobs to a part of the city known for its "food deserts" and limited economic opportunities, an organizer told Dayton Daily News reporter Cornelius Frolik in August.
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